ijusluvit...do the "deepest concerns" you have expressed for your country over the last forty years trump your concerns or the concerns of others about the attempted systematic assault on and erosion of the First Amendment?

It is my understanding, please enlighten me if I am misinformed, the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, that would be the case in issue, relied heavily on the argument of Ted Olsen for Citizens United. The fact pattern, that I am sure you are aware of, in brief summary, was a case brought by the Federal Government to ban a documentary movie critical of Hilliary Clinton just before the election, based on a perceived breach of McCain Feingold Campaign Finance Law. If I left out salient points, feel free to add or clarify.

The legal dynamics of the case and specifically Ted Olson's brilliant argument brought the First Amendment issues front and center. It is my understanding, notwithstanding opinions or representations to the contrary, that Olson argued freedom of speech compatibility. Olson and the court during that argument asked the Federal Government, specifically Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart, if the same ban would have been applied if it was a book and not a movie. The government responded in the affirmative and said the ban would have been enforced if it was a book. The court, at least one more time asked if a book ban or Kindle type book ban, under the same circumstance would be enforced. The Feds said yes. Legal scholars who are more informed than I, tell me they believe this is the point the final decision was most influenced by. Maybe it's just little ole "paranoid" Cabo that sees the dangers of a government that arbitrarily becomes the censor for what we should read and not read and how we can express ourselves. A "slippery slope" by any definition.

Should campaign finance reform trump freedom of speech? Spare me the ad homonym attacks and your ill informed speculations about why I post. Touche on an exchange of speculations.

Thank you for responding and have a nice evening.